Google has just paid a record-breaking $25 million to get exclusive rights to the entire “.app” top-level web domain. The company outbid 11 other bidders, including Amazon, in a heated auction that closed yesterday with the unnamed runner up reportedly…

It's hard to remember a time when all the footage of goats that sound like humans, or Taylor Swift videos, or mash-ups of goats sounding like humans singing to Taylor Swift weren't just a tap away. But it was only…

The Federal Communications Commission’s vote on net neutrality is in. As a result of the expected 3-2 victory, broadband Internet will be reclassified as a public utility under Title II of the Federal Communications Act which gives the government more power to…

Apple has issued media invitations for an event scheduled to take place March 9. The tagline simply reads “spring forward,” an obvious reference to Daylight Savings Time which can only mean one thing...

The first full-scale Hyperloop test track could be ready for trial runs as early as next year and it won't be in Texas. If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Elon Musk over the years, it’s that once he sets…

There’s both good and bad news coming out of photography startup Lytro this week. On one hand, the innovative company has raised an additional $50 million in funding. The bad news? The money is being used for a strategic shift…

Samsung has announced that this year it will freeze the salaries of all its workers in its home country of South Korea, where the company employs nearly 93,928 people. The last time the company took such a step was in…

It may come as a surprise that YouTube, the world’s most popular video platform with more than a billion users each month, still isn’t profitable. Two people familiar with the company’s finances told...

A recent Comcast job listing has the Internet abuzz about the company’s mobile ambitions. There’s not a ton to go on but here’s everything we know at this hour. Comcast said it is looking to develop new concepts to...

Sling TV has been hailed as a disruptor in the pay-TV industry but according to Dish Network chairman and inbound CEO Charlie Ergen, that title is best reserved for an upcoming over-the-top service from Sony.

A federal jury on Tuesday found that Apple’s iTunes platform infringed on a trio of patents owned by patent holding and licensing firm Smartflash LLC. The Cupertino-based company has been ordered to pay damages to the tune of $532.9 million…

Just over a year ago, we profiled Steve Perlman’s pCell technology on TechSpot. Short for personal cell, pCell technology promises to solve pretty much every issue relating to current 4G LTE networks. And now, Perlman is getting the opportunity to prove…

Last fall, a bevy of nude celebrity photos illegally extracted from Apple’s iCloud service hit the Internet. Reddit quickly became a repository for those sharing and looking to find out what all the fuss was about.

One of the many unfortunate fallouts from the recent hacking scandals is the harsh realization that privacy in the age of the Internet is now essentially gone. Some may argue it was never there in the first place but regardless,…

Volvo has reaffirmed plans to conduct a public test of its autonomous driving system in 2017. Unlike some other auto makers that have demonstrated controlled (albeit, still impressive) tests with self-driving cars, Volvo’s Drive Me program will take place on…

Google’s mobile payment system has been around for nearly three and a half years but has yet to make a serious impact in the industry. One of the main reasons for its low adoption rate is the fact that Google…

Between the launch of Neil Young’s PonoPlayer, Sony resurrecting its Walkman as a high-resolution audio player, Philips announcing headphones that use Apple’s lightning connector, news that Windows 10 will include native FLAC support and Tidal launching in the US (whew),…